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Poundstone writes in a conversational manner that transforms potentially dull topics into a lively and relevant discourse on how we know what we know. Poundstone's more complex and curious frailties in our assembling knowledge and applying logic are n... Read More
Sainsbury's _paradoxes_ is a book about paradoxes. Rucker discusses the impossibility of reconciling all of one's beliefs.
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Or you may prefer to start with his metamagical themas part of which deals with the prisoners dilemma
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Harris discusses the impossibility of reconciling all of ones beliefs spiritual or not into a contradictoryfree system of knowledge
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Labyrinths of reason touches on subjects as varied as ancient riddles computer programming philosophy of science and logic problems
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A different perspective on all things reason
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The author examines common paradoxes in order to illumine various problems of knowledge
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It covers almost exactly the same subjectissues i covered in an undergraduate class in formal logic at university of pennsylvania in the 1970s
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Science teaches is a phrase too often used today to shut down inquiry stigmatize doubt and belittle intellectual opposition and science the epistemology of the scientific method begins with doubt
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Read this book so that you can understand that there are an infinite set of problems which are npcomplete nondeterministic polynomial time complete that there are truths which are unprovable formally undecidable and just maybe to ask yourself if reason is a human invention rather than an attribute inherent in the universe
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All the wormholes in our logic the retroviruses ruining the dna of our attempts at clear thought the humorous catch at the heart of every fundamental axiom which turns all philosophy into a mutant shaggydogstory which ends in itself like a moebius strip
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